Hello!
On 2017-11-04 16:02, Dale E Sterner wrote:
I don't believe that freedos should be restricted to only
open software but should promote anything that
improves dos, like QV which is closed but great
dos software. DOS is on the edge of extinction and
needs all the help it can get. Owner of closed softwre
could be asked to include the source in their wills.
cheers
DS
Isn't that exactly what JPSoftware did with 4DOS?
And speaking of it, 4DOS isn't free - it is specifically restricted to
FreeDOS, which makes it non-free.
I'm also thinking that FreeDOS should include a not-so-free and even a
non-free section of software. The only limit should be restriction of
redistribution.
In the good old days DOS used to be all about freeware, shareware,
proprietory stuff and open source programs (at lot of them came from
Linux at that time...)
Cheers,
A.
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